These 10 Movies Will Get You Through A Breakup (According To Reddit)

These 10 Movies Will Get You Through A Breakup (According To Reddit)

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Reddit knows just the right movies to watch to heal a broken heart – and these ten are some of the most recommended.

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These 10 Movies Will Get You Through A Breakup (According To Reddit)

Nothing quite beats the emotional pain of heartbreak, and there’s only so many times your buddies want to hear how much you miss your ex-partner’s smile or the way they ate their cereal. Luckily for everyone, there is always cinema to turn to, and breakup movies are a staple in the long process of licking your wounds and moving on.

Since the answer to life, the universe, and everything lies in the labyrinths of Reddit, we compiled a list of top bittersweet movies recommended on the website here, here, and here to see you through a split-up and onto cathartic tears and happiness.

10 Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

These 10 Movies Will Get You Through A Breakup (According To Reddit)

Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet’s cult movie is the holy grail of breakup cinema. After a nasty argument, Clementine (Winslet) decides to erase all memories of her relationship with Joel (Carrey). Upon discovering this, a heartbroken Joel goes to the same doctor and starts the procedure of removing Clementine from his mind as well, but realizes during the procedure that he is not ready to let her go.

Drama unfolds as they meet again after the memory zap, and the movie delves into their memories and relationship dynamics beautifully.

9 Someone Great

These 10 Movies Will Get You Through A Breakup (According To Reddit)

Netflix’s Someone Great explores the healing power of female friendships as Jenny (Gina Rodriguez) goes through a tumultuous and unexpected breakup with her long term boyfriend right before she’s about to move across the country.

The movie shows the good and bad parts of Jenny’s relationship in flashbacks, while she goes on one last adventure with her girlfriends in NYC. It ends with her accepting the end of an era with the support of her best friends. This movie inspired Taylor Swift to pen the song “Death By A Thousand Cuts” on her 2019 album Lover.

8 Forgetting Sarah Marshall

These 10 Movies Will Get You Through A Breakup (According To Reddit)

One of the most popular post-heartbreak movies, Forgetting Sarah Marshall transforms sorrow to hope and hilarity. Peter (Jason Segel) gets dumped by his TV star girlfriend Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), and after copious moping decides to take a Hawaiian vacation to cleanse her from his mind.

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As luck would have it, Sarah checks into the same hotel with her new rockstar boyfriend, and Peter has to struggle with seeing his newly coupled-up ex. His grief is made considerably lighter when he makes the acquaintance of Rachel (Mila Kunis) who works at the hotel.

7 500 Days Of Summer

These 10 Movies Will Get You Through A Breakup (According To Reddit)

Another cult favorite, Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt play Tom and Summer in this indie flick. 500 Days of Summer turns cinematic romance on its head and injects a dose of reality into it. Summer is Tom’s dream girl, but she doesn’t believe in love or relationships.

Unlike other movies where the sceptic is converted, Tom and Summer do spend 500 glorious days together, but it doesn’t change Summer’s views on love. She leaves Tom, who needs to make the difficult decision of accepting that someone might be perfect for you, but you might not be perfect for them.

6 Frances Ha

These 10 Movies Will Get You Through A Breakup (According To Reddit)

The Greta Gerwig-starrer deals with both platonic and romantic relationships, as well as the struggles of a professionally mediocre twenty-something year old trying to find her place in the world. Frances and her best friend Sophie are inseparable, but one day Sophie decides to move out of their home with her boyfriend Patch.

Frances Ha gives a nuanced depiction of the highs and lows that the titular character goes through as she navigates life, jobs, and family. Perfect to watch after your world seems upended because of a breakup.

5 Eurotrip

These 10 Movies Will Get You Through A Breakup (According To Reddit)

A light-hearted breakup movie from a teenage perspective, Eurotrip promises laughs and a respite from moping. Scott gets dumped by his girlfriend right as he graduates high school. He turns to his German pen pal Mike for consolation, but upon hearing about his breakup, he starts hitting on him.

Scott instantly blocks all communication, but soon enough realizes that Mike is actually Mieke, a beautiful girl whom he rejected completely. Convinced that she is his dream girl, he takes a Euro trip with his buddies to Berlin, Paris, and other gorgeous cities in a bid to find his lady love.

4 Call Me By Your Name

These 10 Movies Will Get You Through A Breakup (According To Reddit)

A beautiful tale of first love and loss set in a scenic Italian village in the 1980s, Timothee Chalamet shines as seventeen-year-old Elio who flirts with the neighboring girls, but eventually has a passionate romance with his father’s older research assistant Oliver (played by Armie Hammer).

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The shimmering haze of instant attraction, heady sex, and magnetic bonds comes to an end when Oliver has to leave, and Elio feels the grief of first heartbreak when he is told that Oliver is now engaged to be married.

3 Swingers

These 10 Movies Will Get You Through A Breakup (According To Reddit)

This 1996 movie continues to be one of the most recommended movies for those with a heart on the mend. Jon Favreau plays Mike Peters, who is heartbroken after six months of being dumped by his girlfriend Michelle. A struggling actor trying to make it in LA, his friends attempt to take him out and put him back on the dating market.

After a couple unsuccessful attempts at meeting someone new, Mike is still pining after his ex. He finally decides to go for a swing night, where he meets an intriguing Lorraine. The next morning, he gets a call from his ex, but finds he no longer misses her. He cuts the call to pursue a conversation with Lorraine.

2 High Fidelity

These 10 Movies Will Get You Through A Breakup (According To Reddit)

Reddit can’t stop recommending High Fidelity to people fresh out of breakups. Starring John Cusack and Iben Hjejle, it explores the life of music-loving Rob Gordon, who gets dumped by his long term girlfriend Laura.

He spends his time trying to win his ex back by figuring out what he did wrong, and signing on new artists to his own indie music label. He manages to pinpoint his own commitment problems, and what is really important to him by the end of the movie.

1 Celeste and Jesse Forever

This movie views the divorce between Andy Samberg’s Jesse and Rashida Jones’ Celeste through the lens of friendship and the complicated emotions that arise when one partner wants to stay and when one doesn’t.

Celeste and Jesse married young, and decide to separate but stay friends. The arrangement is found weird by their friends, and breeds jealousy when they start seeing other people. Even though they both realize in their own time that their relationship was worth fighting for, they finally reach a point when they are able to sign the papers and move on with their own new partners.

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